Posted on 01/20/2024 5:18:01 AM PST by Timber Rattler
In a rare challenge to the Kremlin, a growing number of Russian women are fighting to bring home their husbands, brothers and sons who were drafted to fight in Ukraine.
They say the men have served their time on the front lines, 15 months after some 300,000 reservists were called up to bolster Russia’s struggling campaign. But with little sign of President Vladimir Putin scaling back his ambitions, the military is ignoring their pleas and propagandists have sought to villainize those speaking out.
The women’s mounting frustration has bonded them together, providing common cause in their defiant public stand just months before Putin will extend his rule in an election.
NBC News spoke with a number of women who are part of a growing movement calling for their loved ones to be discharged and allowed to return to civilian life. They have emerged as among the few voices in Russia willing to publicly question how the Kremlin is conducting the war, which continues to reshape the country even as it descends into a stalemate.
Asya is one of those who is desperate for her husband to return home.
He was drafted in September 2022, she said, and is still in Ukraine serving in an artillery unit more than a year later.
She said she now fears her husband, who worked as a driver before he was called up, will be stuck there indefinitely.
“You try to dig yourself out of this pit every day and think, ‘How long can this carry on?’” Asya said, speaking on the phone from her home in the Moscow region. “How long can they mock us like this?”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
"People who destroy whole nations do not have the right to teach us democracy and the values of living freely"#StandWithPutin🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/L2OAmResgL— FriendOfRussia (@NoMoreNATO) January 19, 2024
Posting a response on a public-discussion forum is “stalking”??
You’re certifiable, Jon
Wow! Wives and mothers are worried and lobby the government to hurry, get the duty done and bring their loved ones back safely! Stop the presses! The world has never seen such outrageous actions. Too, too funny. Captain Obvious, I’ll recommend a promotion, at the very least, to Colonel Obvious.
Oh no, this has happened before. Who would have guessed?
OTOH...your probably won't be leaving your parent's basement, ever.
Must be fake news, because this isn’t pro Russian story.
Do you deny the story?
These women are desperate and not just going to be easily silenced.
Aw, c’mon. Just think how difficult Jon’s job is: every day he has to try and paint a happy face on Muscovy’s bumbling around in the mire of their inept special military operation, knowing that tomorrow will be even worse. It’s gotta be a tough job.
Probably come home drunk.
I think Ukraine wives think the same.
We notice Zeepers have nothing good to say about what is happening in Ukraine because nothing good is happening for Ukraine. They have turned focus on Russia with posting gossip and trivialities.
As though we care. This is such a rare challenge. LOL
What story?
Wives and girlfriends want their men at home, news at 11!
If the losses are as bad as they say they are, then a lot or wives and mothers who are missing their loved ones will be missing them forever.
They fought in Afghanistan for ten years and lost 14,453 soldiers... Apparently, they’ve lost seven times that amount since the start of this conflict. That’s a lot of widows without their husbands and mothers without their children.
Democracy and Putin’s idea of governing are two mutually exclusive phenomena. But keep cheering for him, Vatnik. The dead Russian bodies are piling up.
Next Putin will claim that their men cannot return as they defected to Ukraine.
No, he just didn’t like your comment and he has nothing intelligent to reply with, so he just insults and accuses.
He’s a real genius, that one.
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